What Will You Be Wearing at the Midnight Hour?

Cinderella Midnight Hour Eyeshadow Palette ($30.00 for 0.196 oz.) consists of four eyeshadows and is part of a limited edition collaboration collection between Sephora and Disney. The shades are described as “pearl shimmer,” “champagne nude,” “grey pearl,” and “charcoal shimmer glitter.”

The first shade is a bright white with a very subtle gray tinge. It has a high-frost finish that’s almost metallic. The texture was soft, buttery, and yielded good color payoff. Maybelline Too Cool is very similar. theBalm Sassy is also close. MAC Forgery is a bit grayer. Inglot #453 is more metallic.

The last shade is a dark gray that turns rather brown when I swatched it. It was dry, a bit stiff, and had the least color payoff of the four–a little sheer and uneven. MAC Moody is darker. Urban Decay Black Market is much darker.

I like the palette, and certainly, it performed better than I anticipated (but I was, admittedly, rather cynical when I approached this collection), but it didn’t knock it out of the park like the larger eyeshadow palette did. This set of shades is interesting, and I will say that the warmer beige/peach shade is an odd choice. I didn’t feel like it complemented the other three cooler-toned shades. Perhaps it could have used a silvery-blue or really inky black. When I wore the shades, they lasted almost eight hours over a primer, and without a primer, there was noticeable fading after eight hours.

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Really? At a glance, I thought the color combo looked very classic and evening-appropriate–definitely something an actual princess would wear. But after taking a closer look, I agree that the color combo is sort of odd–with that peach against the cool colors.

The larger palette is definitely worth a look. For about double the price, you’re getting 5 times as many colors, albiet in smaller quantities…but let’s be honest…with all the palettes we accumulate do they ever get used up anyway? I work at a SiJCP and every time I walk past the display I have to tell myself “I don’t need that palette…don’t need it.” Sometimes I pretend to be cleaning the display just so I can look at it for longer haha! What’s really cool is that all the colors are taken from the disney film. I don’t want to sound like I’m advertising or anything…I just think the large palette is super cool.

I guess this is mostly for people who are really into disney or cinderella and want the compact itself more than the shadow…? These shades are really common and I can think of plenty of dupes in my own stash already.